Alexey, you are a poor opponent. And the topic is completely uninteresting. You create a topic where you impose your "historical" vision and try to say that everyone else is wrong, and the USSR was good. Create a topic like: Praise the USSR! and everything will be okay.
You didn't like the old system; you call THIS freedom and a good life? Then you are just a simple person who needs an average salary, a piece of sausage, drinks on holidays, and a religion (like communism) that would justify turning people into animals.
"Socialism":
1) Destroyed all the intelligentsia of the country, which had a negative impact for many decades and will continue to cause great harm to culture.
2) During the repressions, censorship, and the actions of institutions such as the NKVD, millions of people died in the country.
3) Led to the destruction of many spiritual values, temples, and traditions.
4) As a result, it left the countries separately in complete decline.
If you like it, live with it. I am just expressing some facts and MY opinion. I talked to a historian the other day, and I have enough knowledge to draw a conclusion. So let's not put pressure on anyone.
Slonysh, it's a different book and a different author. However, why argue? Go to China and feel the communist regime for yourself.
Berserk, you are a poor opponent. And the topic is completely uninteresting. You create a topic where you impose your "historical" vision and try to say that everyone else is wrong, and the USSR is bad. Create a topic like: Criticize the USSR! and everything will be okay.
You didn't like the old system; you call THIS not freedom and not a good life?
Should I continue, or what?? Don't look for specks in other people's eyes; it's better to go to an ophthalmologist.
1. Really, ALL of them?? Let's avoid exclamation marks; they usually don't have much meaning. And the democracy of Russia was like an angel in human form in relation to the intelligentsia, and we all wore малиновые пиджаки, and bandits collected bottles in the trash for bread.
2. And were all the millions innocent??? I doubt it... It was in the 1930s that the "concepts," "godfathers," "bosses," and "thieves in law" originated in the prisons. Probably because only innocent and educated people ended up there, who got bored and started inventing ways to entertain themselves.
Everything was correct; during the repressions, so much (sorry for the expression) scum, garbage, and human filth were dumped there that half of them should have been shot.
3. Accordingly, it gave rise to new spiritual values, etc.; if you don't like them personally, that doesn't mean they didn't exist.
4. And there was no need to separate; everyone wanted power for themselves. And then the question arises: did Tsarist Russia leave behind prosperity and well-being??? Probably, that's why there was a revolution...
I don't want to say "I like it or not"; I just didn't live there. But it's still better to avoid a one-sided approach (see the beginning of the answer).
And a little about China... Go to Iraq and talk about the humanity of democracy...
P.S. I didn't want to get into this topic, but...
P.P.S.
But let's not call Russia a democratic country.
And why shouldn't we call it a democratic country?? If here they call the USSR a socialist/communist power (people have different opinions about these concepts) because that's what is written in books, then we will call Russia democratic, since they shout about it at every corner and in every newspaper.
